Out of nowhere, one character is suddenly revealed to be a sexual predator, because Taylor needs the reader to hate him now.
No characters at all, really: Taylor's creations seem to turn on a dime, depending on whatever the plot ("plot"?) dictates. Things happen, and they are sort of loosely slung-together, with very little sense of time passing (at one point the protagonist notes she's known another character for five years, and I genuinely thought only a single year had passed since their meeting at the beginning of the novel) and with absolutely no character development. The title unfortunately describes the way this book is plotted. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake.
And, as they soon discover - it's not just History they're fighting.įollow the catastrophe curve from 11th-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History's unanswered questions.and not to die in the process. Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it''Science fiction, historical fantasy, love story and more all wrapped up in a fast-paced comedy of errors."History is just one damned thing after another."īehind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "e Max"e Maxwell have seduced me''Addictive. And Max soon discovers it's not just History she's fighting.BOOK 1 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Jasper Fforde, Doctor Who, Genevieve Cogman and Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything. MCDONNELL'A great mix of British properness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' Meet St Mary's - a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets who hurtle their way around History.-If the whole of History lay before you, where would you go?When Dr Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don't just study the past - they revisit it.But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. 'One of my favourite books of all time' CHARLAINE HARRIS 'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time.
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